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We are currently working on filling an exciting new contract opportunity for an *Senior UDB/DB2 DBA *position that will be based out in *Chicago, IL* . *Job Title: Senior UDB/DB2 DBA* *Location: Chicago, IL* *Duration: 6-12 Months* *Skills Required:* · The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of hands-on experience with DB2 UDB v9.7 or later and DB2 utilities. · 5+ years of database design and modeling for data warehouses and OLTP databases, includes: definition, structure, documentation, maintenance, long-range requirements, operational guidelines and protection. · Provide technical expertise when interfacing with teams and technologies that utilize and integrate with the databases. · Provide problem remediation and root cause analysis for DB2 issues · Expertise in optimize performance of DB2 databases is required. · Excellent DB2 trouble shooting and performance analysis skills are vital to this position. · Flexibility to work with various technical and business user teams to enhance enterprise application and database performance and security is required. · Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required. · Excellent in SQL tuning. · Monitoring, analysis, and tuning of DB2 UDBe databases and tuning of SQL to achieve optimum performance. · Extensive knowledge of data integration and processing including extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) using Data Stage, Informatica or Ab Initio. · Outstanding Communications Skills. · This position provides on-call support in a 24 x 7 environment and requires coverage after normal hours and on weekends. *Job Description:* This person provides support to network administration, provides mainframe support, performs data modeling, develops tables for databases, develops applications for web-based applications, and provides design, programming, and testing services. This person also manages and maintains all production and non-production databases. Responsible for standards and design of physical data storage, maintenance, access and security administration, this person will performs backup and recovery on DBMS and configure database parameters, along with related activities. Seven years of experience is desired. Plan work to meet project deadlines, accommodate demands by development teams, set priorities and escalate issues appropriately · Establish SQL Programming best-practices and standards based SQL components programming templates (e.g. stored procedures, triggers, data type rules and error handling) · Conducts Performance Tuning on specific SQL and underlying Oracle system. · Assists Data Architect with physical design specifications. · Understand logical schemas and generate & maintain physical schema (tables, stored procedures, indexes etc.) as per the physical design specifications. · Supports development and testing teams with Oracle environment needs, code-promotions and code deployments. · Ensure the quality and integrity of data are maintained as design and functional requirements change. · Develop repeatable mechanism and procedures to load data for development, testing and performance engineering activities. · Develop and document Database design/implementation impacts based on system monitoring reports. · Direct and lead developers and analysts on SQL query development and tuning · Ability to participate in multiple projects concurrently · Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation), customer service-oriented · Strong problem solving skill set, and the ability to understand new technologies quickly are essential · Monitor database management systems as well as evaluating database performance to maximize efficiency · Work in an environment that practices strict change management · Provide recommendations to application development teams for data restructuring and performing complex maintenance · Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum and participates in Agile/Scrum · Deploy and manage changes in development, staging and production · Involve in a rotation for on-call after hour for database support · Design and optimize database and table partitioning strategy · Design and fine tune SQL execution plans for best performance · Design table structure (including indexing strategy) to optimize SQL execution with focus on Java/Cognos/ETL performance · Design rollout and migration strategies for new and existing applications · Enforce best practices in database development with focus on performance and security · Establish protocols to monitor performance (e.g. ADDM Analysis) Regards, Sonoma Consulting, Inc. 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